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  • I used to get my hair dyed at a place called Big Hair. It cost $15. They just used straight bleach, so my hair was the color of white lined paper, and my eyebrows looked like they were done with a thick black marker.

    Hair   Color   Eyebrows  
    "Tina Fey on Top". Interview with Amy Poehler, www.marieclaire.com. April 10, 2008.
  • By electrifying our lives, we reduce our energy costs by 39 percent, which is a huge savings in itself.

    Energy   Saving   Cost  
    "ORIGIN Interview: Mark Ruffalo on Climate Change, the Monopoly on Our Energy Systems, Fighting Fracking, the True Cost of Fossil Fuel Pollution, Showing Compassion, and Being Who You Say You Are". Interview with Leilani Münter, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 27, 2016.
  • Midget wrestling on channel 3, it costs me 50 bucks a month.

    Art   Wrestling   Media  
  • Suppose you had a small electrical fire and... a structural engineer [looked] at your home's wiring [and] reports that the wiring is "shot" and there is a 50% chance that your house would burn down in the next few years unless you replace all the wiring. The job will cost $20,000... so you get an independent assessment. The next engineer agrees with the first warning. You can either continue to shop for additional evaluations until you find the one engineer in 1,000 that is willing to give you the answer you want, "Your family is not in danger" or you can change the wiring.

    Jobs   Home   Independent  
  • It is extremely difficult to get movies that cost more than $40 million to be made these days.

    Cost   Made   These Days  
  • If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.

    Long   Special   Cost  
  • Very few people would choose to have even the most fabled assortment of goods if it meant getting cancer within the year. But the choice involves not the certainty of cancer very soon but an increased probability of cancer at some time in the future. The cancers are no less real; millions will die painfully and prematurely because of what we do to our environment. But the choice is not an easily visualizable one, and our capacity of denial comes strongly into play - as it tends to whenever we must weigh future costs against immediate benefits.

    Real   Cancer   Years  
  • Recently I prayed, "Lord, I want to know your peace at all costs. I won't listen to the devil's lies any longer. I know my salvation is not in my performance. No, Jesus, you alone plead my case. I rest in what you've done for me." Can you say the same by faith?

    Christian   Jesus   Lying  
  • Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.

    Nature   Animal   Men  
  • Despair is easy, or at least low cost.

    Despair   Cost   Easy  
  • I want to focus on what are called kitchen table issues. You know, the ones that keep you up at night, like the cost of childcare and college and prescription drugs and so much else.

    Night   College   Issues  
    Source: time.com
  • People can buy the kind of things they consider as normal and take for granted because of globalization and trade and use of supply chains and the reduction of the cost base of the manufacturing of some products.

    People   Cost   Use  
    "Christine Lagarde on slow growth, inequality and fighting cynicism". Interview with Kevin Carmichael, www.macleans.ca. September 12, 2016.
  • We can do it better, more consistently, and in the end, it will cost us less because the students that we produce will be superior to those without technology experience.

  • To come to Christ costs you nothing, to follow Christ costs you something, to serve Christ will cost you everything.

    Cost   Christ  
  • If it so happened that I had once written a best-seller, this was a pure accident, due to inattention and naivete, and I would take very good care never to do the same again. If I had a message for my contemporaries, I said, it was surely this: Be anything you like, be madmen, drunks, and bastards of every shape and form, but at all costs avoid one thing: success.

    Cost   Care   Shapes  
    Thomas Merton (2002). “Seeds”
  • Five or six hundred [aristocratic] heads lopped off would have assured you repose and happiness; a false humanity has restrained your arm and suspended your blows; it will cost the lives of millions of your brothers.

    Brother   Blow   Humanity  
    L'Ami du peuple newspaper, Volume 2, p. 1121,
  • I remember my boyfriend and I had just broken up, and I was like 'I don't care how much it costs, I'm getting my hair bleached!' That's really when everything changed.

  • All good things require effort. That which is worth having will cost part of your physical being, your intellectual power and your soul power. Let us ever keep in mind that life is largely what we make it.

  • Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly - a lark which must have cost Him a regret or two when He came to think it over and observe effects.

    Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.787, Jazzybee Verlag
  • Sustainability is no longer optional. Companies that fail to adopt such practices will perish. They will not only lose cost basis: they will also suffer in recruiting employees as well as attracting customers.

  • There are only two things in a business that make money - innovation and marketing, everything else is cost.

  • We went back on a very similar manifesto to things I believe in. The difference is that after eighteen months to two years he did the biggest U-turn on policy of all time and started to go the wrong way. In the end, that cost us the next election.

    Believe   Years   Two  
    Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd
  • Love is not always doing what brings pleasure; love is also doing what is good for someone, whatever the cost at the moment. sometimes, it's leaving... for awhile - and the love is shown, then, in the pain given. For pain is a lesson best learned from the one who loves you the most.

  • Continental thinkers have been obsessed with bourgeois man as representing the worst and most contemptible failure of modernity, which must at all costs be overcome. Nihilism in its most palpable sense means that the bourgeois has won, that the future, all foreseeable futures, belong to him, that all heights above him and all depths beneath him are illusory and that life is not worth living on these terms.

    Mean   Men   Nihilism  
    "The Closing of the American Mind". Book by Allan Bloom, pp. 157-158, 1987.
  • The U.S. Treasury has got borrowing costs like nobody else has.

    "Warren Buffett: I Haven't Seen As Much Economic Fear In My Adult Lifetime". Interview With Charlie Rose, www.cnbc.com. October 1, 2008.
  • The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs. There is not one of them which will not make us into devils if we set it up as an absolute guide. You might think love of humanity in general was safe, but it is not. If you leave out justice you will find yourself breaking agreements and faking evidence in trials "for the sake of humanity", and become in the end a cruel and treacherous man.

    Men   Thinking   Justice  
    C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.22, HarperCollins UK
  • For years I have made it my mission to destroy the influence of the Christian clich, 'the safest place to be is in the center of the will of God.' God would never choose for us safety at the cost of significance. God created you so that your life would count, not so that you could count the days of your life.

  • A Congressional Budget Office study estimated that gulf energy infrastructure repair costs will be between $18 billion and $31 billion, just from the damages the hurricane created.

    Office   Energy   Cost  
  • The strike and the boycott, they have cost us much. What they have not paid us in wages, better working conditions, and new contracts, they have paid us in self-respect and human dignity.

    Self   Cost   Wages  
  • Whatever expenditure is sanctioned - even when it is sanctioned against the ministry's wish - the ministry must find the money. Accordingly, they have the strongest motive to oppose extra outlay. The ministry is (so to speak) the breadwinner of the political family, and has to meet the cost of philanthropy and glory; just as the head of a family has to pay for the charities of his wife and the toilette of his daughters.

    "The English Constitution". Book by Walter Bagehot, Seventh edition. Chapter 5: "The House of Commons", p. 137, en.wikisource.org. 1894.
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